effective. but we are still urging people to be cautious. matt gaetz adding two new york attorneys to his defense team. federal investigators are looking into gaetz s role into an alleged prostitution ring as part of a wider probe of the congressman and his associates. they lie about me because i tell the truth about them, and i m not going to stop. the funeral, we now know will be next saturday. the public aren t invited. there won t be any crowds. that s really because of the pandemic. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world on this saturday. you are live in the cnn newsroom. and tonight, michigan is facing a crisis. it leads to nation in coronavirus infections with a positivity rate of 18%. and now we are learning the federal government plans to help with this surge and new cases. a senior administration official telling me tonight that 160 fema vaccinators will head to michigan. that s people delivering the
shooting of a young man. so much ground to cover on all of this, police reported making a number of arrests during the protests for daunte wright. what more can you tell us? upwards of more than 100 people were arrested last night. things started out relatively peaceful, around 200. that number went up, and around 9:00 p.m. things took a downward turn. that led authorities to disperse the crowd. upwards of 100 people were arrested. we re in downtown minneapolis, just blocks away from the courtroom, where the trial is underway for officer chauvin. you can see the fencing here, also see that razor wire has been installed. we re told by police officials this is what it looks like by all five precincts. this city is dealing with two controversies at the same time involving a use of force by police, obviously what is happening in brook run center and the fallout from george floyd. they have members of the national guard that are set up beyond me. this is what it looks like with
surveillance? she d stepped right into the twilight zone hidden codes, government agents, undercover spies. i was so scared. who was this man she was about to marry? your brain has got to be saying holy cow to learn the truth, she would launch a secret mission of her own. testing, testing. a high-stakes game of spy versus spy. reporter: you were your own detective here. i was. he wasn t going to stop unless somebody stopped him. hello, and welcome to dateline. ask any divorced parent, finding love a second time around can be hard. but when mischele lewis met liam allen, he checked all the boxes. he was charming, smart, and something of a jet-setter. mischele welcomed him into her heart only to realize her new boyfriend was leading a double life. who was the real liam allen? it was a riddle this single mom was determined to solve. here s dennis murphy with the mystery man. reporter: what s love got do with it? well, as mischele lewis tells it, just
family and friends practicing similar prevention measures. president biden saying he bungled the covid case. omicron variant may have peaked. and despite the surge in covid cases, americans are crowding the roads and the airports at near pre-pandemic levels. we have your holiday travel and weather covered. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome, everyone. it is thursday, december 23rd. we begin with some positive news in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. there is a new pill that could be a real game changer. the fda has authorized pfizer s antiviral pill to treat covid-19 in the united states. and the white house says thousands will be available in a matter of weeks and many more by the summer. cnn medical analyst dr. leana wen explains why this is such a big deal. there are a lot of people who are remaining unvaccinated. i wish they were going to get vaccinated, but we know that there are some people who are just n
youngkin beat terry mcauliffe despite democrats recent gains in that state. already the finger pointing, theorizing and forewarning is well underway within the party. president biden addressed democratic setbacks last night. he didn t exactly own them, but he says the time for action is now. what i do know is i do know that people want us to get things done. they want us to get things done. people are upset and uncertain about a lot of things, from covid to school to jobs to a whole range of things. what happened was i think we have to just produce results for them to change their standard of living and give them a little more breathing room. congressional democrats are searching for answers, searching for that breathing room. and taking some tactics along the way. house speaker nancy pelosi is pushing for a vote on the build back better plan and the hard infrastructure bill. about $3 trillion in total. and she wants it as soon as today, although that is considered unl